Nowhere but Home - Softcover

Palmer, Liza

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062007475 ISBN 13: 9780062007476

Publisher: William Morrow & Company, 2013

Synopsis

Bestselling author Liza Palmer carries readers to North Star, Texas, in the amusing and poignant Nowhere But Home.

After Queenie Wake is dismissed from her restaurant job, she returns to North Star to cook meals for death row inmates.

Hopeful that the bad memories of her late mother and promiscuous sister (now the mother of the captain of the high school football team) have been forgotten by the locals, Queenie discovers that some people can't be forgotten--heartbreaker Everett Coburn--her old high-school sweetheart.

When secrets from the past emerge, will Queenie be able to stick by her family or will she leave home again?

Liz Palmer's Nowhere But Home is a funny and touching story of food, football, and fooling around.

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Review:

"A heart-wrenching tale told with true wisdom and a brilliant wit... An uplifting reading experience."--Kirkus Reviews

"Nowhere But Home is a nice, warm snack."--New York Journal of Books

"Palmer deftly covers the complicated ground of family and hometown loyalty in this funny, poignant novel."--Booklist

"This appetizing, colorful tale of a young woman finding herself and finding love again will please readers who enjoy smart chick lit."--Library Journal

A heart-wrenching tale told with true wisdom and a brilliant wit An uplifting reading experience. --Kirkus Reviews"

Nowhere But Home is a nice, warm snack. --New York Journal of Books"

Palmer deftly covers the complicated ground of family and hometown loyalty in this funny, poignant novel. --Booklist"

This appetizing, colorful tale of a young woman finding herself and finding love again will please readers who enjoy smart chick lit. --Library Journal"

From the Back Cover:

The strategy on the gridiron of Friday Night Lights is nothing compared to the savagery of coming home . . .

Queenie Wake has just been fired from her job as a chef for not allowing a customer to use ketchup . . . again. Now the only place she has to go is North Star, Texas, the hometown she left in disgrace. Maybe things will be different this time around. After all, her mother--notorious for stealing your man, your car, and your rent money--has been dead for years. And Queenie's sister, once the local teenage harlot who fooled around with the town golden boy, is now the mother of the high school football captain.

Queenie's new job, cooking last meals at the nearby prison, is going well . . . at least the inmates don't complain! But apparently small-town Texas has a long memory for bad reputations. And when Queenie bumps into Everett Coburn, the high school sweetheart who broke her heart, she wishes her own memory was a little spottier. But before Queenie takes another chance on love, she'll have to take an even bigger risk: finding a place to call home once and for all.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0062007475
• ISBN 13: 9780062007476
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384